What can our reader do if her boss won't reply to her emails? Photograph: Frank Baron for the Guardian

Work ethics is a fortnightly feature in Guardian Work where a reader submits a workplace dilemma and asks for your help. A selection of the best answers will appear in Saturday's paper. (And if you have a dilemma you'd like to share, anonymously, with our readers, please email us.)

This week's question

I'm having trouble caused by my manager's inability to communicate with me. I am part-time, so rely on email and/or text (he hates phone calls), but he is incredibly lax at replying and his responses (if he remembers at all) are often vague and nonspecific. I feel ignored and am starting to boil with resentment – how can I improve things?